Chapter One: You should change, you stink like dog poop

Karen's POV 

At first, I thought it was only the dog making noise, but that was too much bark for a maltease.This elegant toy dog breed is famed for the silky white hair covering his body. Straight and thick, the coat falls all the way to the floor. Speaking of floor , how did I end up on this dirty muddy ground and why is a maltease dog licking my face and not a German Shepherd. 

"Excuse me miss,stand up now" I growled at the unpleasant voice smearing my face with my muddy hand in an attempt to wipe out the ones on my face,  before I could stand up a big muscled hand lifted my petite frame in one swift. 

"Sorry about Zara ,  she gets a little wild when she meets her kind " The muscled man with the unpleasant  voice void of any emotion.He would have passed for a bodyguard judging from his muscles and big physique but this man here was wearing black vest over a black jeans,  black boots, tattoos running down both open arms. Before I could reply he left me unsteady running after the pretty maltease teasing my face a while ago. 

Not bothering myself about who  this Zara is  and and  and laughing my butts out at the huge dreadful looking man's attempt to catch the maltease who was busy wagging her tail and playing around with the German Shepherd, Giffy my dog. I tried cleaning the debris and grasses on my black jeans and blue shirt which has  red heart patterns at the same looking round the park to make sure no eyes was still ogling me after that silly fall caused by two excited wagging dogs. 

I brought out my small ball waving it at Giffy and he immediately stopped running around , standing at attention his eyes trailing my hand , the maltease did the same creating an opportunity for the hunk man to stealthily grab her lease from behind, he carried the maltease away without a backward glance towards a black van.I sighed waving away my paranoid thoughts about a dog getting kidnapped, went and gave Giffy a good pat before putting him on a leash heading home. 

"Enough walk for today buddy"  

"Hello Nuna " removed my muddy sneakers at the door going to give Nuna, our 92 years old grandmother a soft hug.Nuna is supposed to be at an adult facility but we simply can't afford that  for the time being, the public facility is too congested besides the house gets too lonely with Hakem always on one business or the other. Nuna just smiled and kept listening to the old radio sitting on the table beside the fireplace. I added some firewood , filled Giffy's dog plate with his food before heading for the microwave to get something for my tummy when Hakem walked in. 

"Back so early dear equal?" 

"Karen I am not your equal ,  Momma said so and the certificates already bear witness that I am by far your elder brother with exactly 1325 seconds " he said grinning dropping his bareback on the dinning table , removing his necktie the cover shoes before his socks. 

"That's like  only 4  minutes Hakem!"

"At least our right clearly justify my claims which are actually facts!" Nuna made a grunting sound and we both kept quiet turning to look at her at the same time but she was oblivion,  her attention towards the radio where a bedtime story is slowly playing.We both sighed Hakem going to the kitchen to get a shot from the fridge while I tried to microwave the past from yesterday's supper.

"Karen , I found a part time job for  you at the Airport and you will love it" he said following me around the small mahogany kitchen all fights of older sibling forgotten. Hakem Owen is my twin brother who happens to be older than me with seconds and some  inches in height.Hakem graduated from college as a computer scientist but he keeps getting odd jobs and changing them at intervals 'trying to find myself and passion ' was his usual excuse and reasons,  he is currently working as an air host with the Qatar private jet luxury aviation industry.

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I stirred the pasta once more " I havee a job Hakem " he came close to me making that sweet face that I couldn't resist 

"Please do this for me, you will get to be an air hostess for a first class private jet. That's a lot of ladies dream job out there and it's just for a night please pretty with the pretty long legs, a colleague had health issue and we needed someone to fill in which I volunteered to get into the Boss's good book..."

Hakem kept teasing and pleading following me around the tight kitchen. I rolled my eyes at him thinking of a way to blackmail him out of this in the future but my head was too blank at the moment. 

"Okay , you win but don't expect much from me .I cam handle wearing the short shimmering things but don't blame me if I fall on my high heels!" He made a face

 "Na , nothing nothing can handle .Balance the tray containing the flutes with champagne right, sway your hips enough..." That's it , I threw a table napkinv at him which he dodged laughing hard. I love listening to the sounds of my brother laughing, it reminds me of old times when we had a happy childhood when  Papa and Mama were still here. Hakem has grown into a tall and lanky good looking young man.His mid length dark  wavy hair with bangs mostly falling from his face was his distinct feature giving him an edge over his fellow when auditioning for modelling and side jobs like air hosting, Can't count the number of guys approaches me to give a message to Hakem thinking he was a pretty gay but I can't be the judge of that since Hakem is pretty much obsessed over work and computer gig stuff than what his normal mates we're involve in. 

 You should change ,  you stink like dog poop. Will want you looking all good as smelling nice for our special passengers" 

"Hakem! Why does it feel like you are sending me on a sex slave job! " 

"You might never know " he shrugged nonchalantly, the soup spoon win went flying towards his direction next still missing the targetmetallicssound-makingettalic sound making Giffy look up from his plate ;ears out and tail wagging.